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R&R by Mark Dapin
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian
John 'Nashville' Grant is an American military policeman in the RR town of Vung Tau, tucked safely behind the front lines of the Vietnam War. Nashville knows how everything works: the army, the enemy, bars, secrets, men and women. He's keeping the peace by keeping his head down and making the most of it ...Show more
Spirit House by Mark Dapin
$32.99 AUD
Category: Australian
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2014 ONDAATJE PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE MILES FRANKLIN AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE AGE BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD David is thirteen and confused. His mum has left with her lover and dumped David on his grandparents. David's grandfather, Jimmy, is seventy. He spends his days at the social cl ...Show more
Strange Country by Mark Dapin
$24.99 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
As anyone who's ever read Mark Dapin's column and features in Good Weekend knows, he's an immensely funny, acute and vivid observer of Australian life. In Strange Country, he takes us on a journey through a very different Australia - a country that's eccentric, puzzling, big-hearted, small-minded, nosta ...Show more
Strange Country : Travels in a Very Different Australia by Mark Dapin
$34.99 AUD
Category: Travel Guides
"This book is about the people I met as I crisscrossed Australia by train and plane and L-plated car: the undefeated dreamers and wild-hearted romantics, the obsessed hobbyists and beautiful failures. It is about heroes and legends, illusions, delusions and hope, and one or two men with shit for brains ...Show more
The Infinities by Mark Dapin
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
John Banville is one of the finest and most critically-acclaimed writers of his generation. With elegance, insight and wit, he has secured a devoted readership, and there can be few more eagerly anticipated literary events than a new John Banville novel – and, indeed, this is the first novel u ...Show more
The Nasho's War: Australia's National Servicemen and Vietnam by Mark Dapin
$25.00 AUD
Category: War
On 10 March 1965, the first nasho's birthdate was drawn from a lottery barrel at the Department of Labour and National Service in Melbourne. Over the next seven years, a total of 63740 young Australian men would be drafted into the army and face the prospect of being sent to war. The nashos came from al ...Show more
The Nashos' War : Australia's National Servicemen and Vietnam by Mark Dapin
$40.00 AUD
Category: Australian
On 10 March 1965, the first nasho's birthdate was drawn from a lottery barrel at the Department of Labour and National Service in Melbourne. Over the next seven years, a total of 63740 young Australian men would be drafted into the army and face the prospect of being sent to war. The nashos came from al ...Show more
The Penguin Book of Australian War Writing by Mark Dapin (ed)
$39.95 AUD
Category: War
From the cliffs of Gallipoli, to the jungles of Vietnam, to the deserts of Afghanistan and Iraq, Australia's short history has been punctuated by war. We define ourselves through our relationship to the battlefield - mateship, courage under fire, larrikinism - but few of us have been firsthand witnesses ...Show more